mr. gore: it's a two-phase plan. for the first four years -- it takes a year to pass it and for the first four years only the poor are covered. middle class seniors like george mckinney and his wife are not covered for four to five years. mr. lehrer: i have an idea. if you have any more to say about this, you can say it in your closing statements and will move on, ok? new question. vice president gore, how would you contrast your approach to preventing future oil price and supply problems like we have now to the approach of governor bush? mr. gore: excellent question. and here is the simple difference. my plan has not only a short-term component but also a long-term component. it focuses not only on increasing the supply, which i think we have to do, but also on working on the consumption side. no now, in the short-term, we have to free ourselves from the domination of the big oil companies that have the ability to manipulate the price from opec when they want to raise the price. and in the long-term, we have to give new incentives for the development of domestic resources like deep gas in the western gulf, like stripper wells for oil, but also renewable sources of e